Mexico Seizes 1 Ton of Cocaine Hidden In Frozen Sharks
June 17, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Mexico’s navy has seized more than a ton of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.
Armed and masked navy officers cut open more than 20 shark carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a container ship in a container port in the southern Mexico state of Yucatan, the navy and Mexican media said Tuesday.
“We are talking about more than a ton of cocaine that was inside the ship,” Navy Cmdr. Eduardo Villa told reporters after X-ray machines and sniffer dogs helped uncover the drugs.
